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you could argue lyndon johnson interpreted his mandate in 1964 as a blank check in vietnam. that is one of the great dangers that confronts presidents. i do not think there is a second term curse. i think there are a number of factors. i think the word mandate should be removed from the white house dictionary. in a polarized area, presidents have a tendency to over- interpret. host: let me add this iconic photograph of president bill clinton, hugging monica lewinsky. only the second president to face impeachment. guest: we have been told by people who should know that president clinton was willing to use some of the political capital he had. he won a significant, decisive victory over bob dole in 1996. he was prepared to move on entitlements, the so-called third rail of american politics, which would have required him spending a lot of political capital. then when the whole scandal broke, that was no longer a viable option. host: let me share with you this story from "the washington post." there is one sentence from this article i want you to react to. mcdonough is seen as a
you could argue lyndon johnson interpreted his mandate in 1964 as a blank check in vietnam. that is one of the great dangers that confronts presidents. i do not think there is a second term curse. i think there are a number of factors. i think the word mandate should be removed from the white house dictionary. in a polarized area, presidents have a tendency to over- interpret. host: let me add this iconic photograph of president bill clinton, hugging monica lewinsky. only the second president...
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our secretary of veterans affairs and vietnam veterans, rick shinseki who is here. and we're honored to be joined by some truly extraordinary americans. our wounded warriors who inspire us with their incredible strength and resolve. our enlisted men and women and junior officers, the backbone of our military. our amazing military families. including the families of the fallen. our gold star families, we will stand with you always. the members of the legendary tuskegee airmen in the house. and the recipients of our nation's highest military decoration, the medal of honor. we are honored by your presence. you know, today, we experienced the majesty of our democracy. a ritual only possible in a form of government that is of, by, and for the people. a day made possible because there are patriots like each and every one of you who defend our freedom every single day. so this little party is just another way to say something we can never say enough. thank you. thank you for volunteering. thank you for stepping up. thank you for keeping us strong. thank you for always maki
our secretary of veterans affairs and vietnam veterans, rick shinseki who is here. and we're honored to be joined by some truly extraordinary americans. our wounded warriors who inspire us with their incredible strength and resolve. our enlisted men and women and junior officers, the backbone of our military. our amazing military families. including the families of the fallen. our gold star families, we will stand with you always. the members of the legendary tuskegee airmen in the house. and...
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this is the vietnam war generation, post vietnam in some ways. but keep in mind we're going to still have vietnam battles coming up with chuck hag,l could be very -- change some of the harmony on the debt. >> pelley: we see the president coming in under the great dome of the capitol to pay his respects to the bust of martin luther king, junior. >> pelley: the president with the speaker of the house, john boehner and house minority leader, nancy pelosi. the president will be leaving the capitol going out the east front to review u.s. army troops that have assembled outside for this occasion. magnificent shot from a camera high in the capitol dome. the dome celebrating its 150th anniversary this year. cbs news, live coverage of the inauguration of president barack obama will continue from washington in just a moment. overmany discounts to thine customers! [old english accent] safe driver, multi-car, paid in full -- a most fulsome bounty indeed, lord jamie. thou cometh and we thy saveth! what are you doing? we doth offer so many discounts, we have s
this is the vietnam war generation, post vietnam in some ways. but keep in mind we're going to still have vietnam battles coming up with chuck hag,l could be very -- change some of the harmony on the debt. >> pelley: we see the president coming in under the great dome of the capitol to pay his respects to the bust of martin luther king, junior. >> pelley: the president with the speaker of the house, john boehner and house minority leader, nancy pelosi. the president will be leaving...
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you know, lyndon johnson mired in vietnam, richard nixon in watergate. >> when we talk to presidential advisers and people around the president will tick off all of the things on the president's agenda, gun control might be at the top of that agenda, immigration is there, going to hit a debt ceiling soon. a list of if you're aggressive, 25 things. does he have to pair that list down be to one? i mean if you're only giving him a year window before essentially let's say two, before it's a lame duck, you know, is it one thing to go for or 20 things or five things? >> circumstances will pare it or expand it. who would have predicted six weeks ago we would talk about gun control as a major item on that list. presidents react to events much more than they control events and that's true first term, second term. ronald reagan is a classic xarm. is the reagan second term a failure because of iran-contra or a success because of the treaty. immigration reform, tax reform. whatever you hear about the second term curse be skeptical. >> is there an annual gis time in history to where president obama
you know, lyndon johnson mired in vietnam, richard nixon in watergate. >> when we talk to presidential advisers and people around the president will tick off all of the things on the president's agenda, gun control might be at the top of that agenda, immigration is there, going to hit a debt ceiling soon. a list of if you're aggressive, 25 things. does he have to pair that list down be to one? i mean if you're only giving him a year window before essentially let's say two, before it's a...
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. >> rose: and you never know what's coming though, as vietnam -- >> oh, it -- as i write now, the last line about lyndon johnson, when his second term starts with passing medicare, voting rights act, civil rights act just on the triumph of getting social welfare legislation through and here comes vietnam in 1965 overshadowing it all and everything turns and as you're listening to the tapes of these conversations and you hear the despair in his -- the growing despair in his voice as vietnam comes to overshadow everything he wanted to do and that he wanted to started to do in the second term. you see how a second term can go really bad. >> rose: what did he say "that bitch of a war stole --" >> the woman i love, the great society. >> rose: the challenge for a second term? >> well, the challenge i think often times is that a president who's had great reelections suddenly finds he has less power than he thought he had. franklin park zoo in -- franklin roosevelt in 1937, more democratic congress than in any time of the century suddenly realize that the supreme court can keep on overruling t
. >> rose: and you never know what's coming though, as vietnam -- >> oh, it -- as i write now, the last line about lyndon johnson, when his second term starts with passing medicare, voting rights act, civil rights act just on the triumph of getting social welfare legislation through and here comes vietnam in 1965 overshadowing it all and everything turns and as you're listening to the tapes of these conversations and you hear the despair in his -- the growing despair in his voice as...
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. >> and lyndon johnson and vietnam war. >> right. >> one of the things we know absolutely for sure is that something is going to go wrong in the second term. >> it always happens. >> always. sometimes you can foresee it, natural disaster, a terrorist attack. it could be who know what is? i think that we're pretty safe in deciding that there's not a sex scandal in the obama family. >> george bush, it was the financial crisis. >> right. >> and katrina. >> and iraq. >> the idea's how they handle it. >> i'm going to go out on a limb. i think the worst may be behind him. he's actually got more momentum going in than most presidents do. his numbers are actually going up. the economy's getting a little bit better. the wars are winding down so he does have a shot but most important thing to say is i think he's found his game. >> if you look at president's popularity, his is low. >> one of the lowest in past 20, 30 years but the numbers moving in the right direction. i think he's found his rhythm, found a way to actually play the game in this town. i think he may have a better second term than
. >> and lyndon johnson and vietnam war. >> right. >> one of the things we know absolutely for sure is that something is going to go wrong in the second term. >> it always happens. >> always. sometimes you can foresee it, natural disaster, a terrorist attack. it could be who know what is? i think that we're pretty safe in deciding that there's not a sex scandal in the obama family. >> george bush, it was the financial crisis. >> right. >> and...
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. >> and let's not forget, lyndon johnson and the vietnam war. one of the things we know absolutely for sure, is that something is going to go wrong in the second term. it always does. always. sometimes you can foresee it as it's coming, could be a natural disaster, a terrorist attack, it could be -- who knows what, i think that we're pretty safe in deciding that there's not going to be a sex scandal in the obama family. >> george bush it was the financial crisis. >> exactly. >> but i -- >> katrina. >> and iraq. >> the idea is how they handle it, how they handle it. >> i'm going to go out on a limb. i think the worst may be behind him. he's actually got more momentum going in than most presidents do, his numbers are actually going up. the k34e's getting a little bit better, the wars are winding down, he does have a shot. i think the most important thing i would say is, i think he's found his game. >> you look at his popularity as compared to other presidents, it's relatively low. >> it is. one of the lowest in the past 20, 30 years, the numbers a
. >> and let's not forget, lyndon johnson and the vietnam war. one of the things we know absolutely for sure, is that something is going to go wrong in the second term. it always does. always. sometimes you can foresee it as it's coming, could be a natural disaster, a terrorist attack, it could be -- who knows what, i think that we're pretty safe in deciding that there's not going to be a sex scandal in the obama family. >> george bush it was the financial crisis. >> exactly....
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it seems to me we are now past the vietnam stage wheith presidt obama. it is difficult for me. i think joe biden wants to be president and he'll run for president at this very moment, but i think it's a tough sell for both vice president biden and hillary clinton because you are going back a generation. part of this president's appeal has been to young people. >> it is. my experience in all of this is the same that once america moves forward a generation, it almost never moves back and that was a problem for the mccains and even the romneys of this world. however -- when you're the vp, you get one shot to extend. you are defined by the guy above you. so, you get to ride on the previous generation. >> he gets younger. >> he's the youngest guy in this town, too. >> benjamin button. >> i talked to a veteran democratic actrist strategist who has been involved and she told me within 48 hours she got a call from both joe biden and martin omool o'malley about whe you in 2016. dick cheney was not going to run, we knew he was not going to run. you saw his influence in the second bush te
it seems to me we are now past the vietnam stage wheith presidt obama. it is difficult for me. i think joe biden wants to be president and he'll run for president at this very moment, but i think it's a tough sell for both vice president biden and hillary clinton because you are going back a generation. part of this president's appeal has been to young people. >> it is. my experience in all of this is the same that once america moves forward a generation, it almost never moves back and...
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kennedy said we will go anywhere, bear any price, bear any burden, et cetera, et cetera, we wound up in vietnam. it was a kind of incontinent optimism but is dangerous. >> the king of the cautionary tale, george will. let's go to martha raddatz who is inside the capitol and she's with then secretary leon panetta. >> thanks, diane. i am with secretary panetta and i know, of course, you were keeping tabs on the terrible situation in algeria and the hostage crisis there, which is clearly over now. but i was struck in the speech by president obama saying lasting peace does not require perpetual war. right at the same time we've got u.s. planes leading in mali to help french troops, what do you think it means what he said and what do you see in the next four years? >> i think it means, you know, we've been through ten years of war and it doesn't mean there respect any threats in the world, but i think it does mean that we're going to have to work with other countries to develop the kind of alliances and partnerships that bring other countries into this challenge of how we preserve peace. can't just
kennedy said we will go anywhere, bear any price, bear any burden, et cetera, et cetera, we wound up in vietnam. it was a kind of incontinent optimism but is dangerous. >> the king of the cautionary tale, george will. let's go to martha raddatz who is inside the capitol and she's with then secretary leon panetta. >> thanks, diane. i am with secretary panetta and i know, of course, you were keeping tabs on the terrible situation in algeria and the hostage crisis there, which is...
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learn from the lessons in the past as we've done with vietnam and the germans and japanese and all the people we've gone to woor with and it's an amazing idea to throw that idea in the face of the neo cons. they hated what we heard him say. i spent some time with an iranian family this past weekend. they said go over to talk to the people. he said you media never talk to the iranians. not the mull yeahs. he knows the that the most important thing committee do this year is avoid a war. everything else is secondary, a war with iran. it was a powerful link to that speech. >> the president saying enduring security and lasting peace do not require perpetual war. we are also heirs to those that won the peace and not just the war who turned sworn enemies into the surest of friends, and we must carry those lessons as well. >> i thought this was one of the most progressive speeches president obama has ever given, and he hit on a number of themes that he campaigned on. went right down to we are true to our creed with a little girl born into the bleakest poverty knows that she has the same xans t
learn from the lessons in the past as we've done with vietnam and the germans and japanese and all the people we've gone to woor with and it's an amazing idea to throw that idea in the face of the neo cons. they hated what we heard him say. i spent some time with an iranian family this past weekend. they said go over to talk to the people. he said you media never talk to the iranians. not the mull yeahs. he knows the that the most important thing committee do this year is avoid a war....
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inaugural, filled with a great society with all the things he wanted to accomplish in associate justice and vietnam was a small part of that and it becomes the swallowing of his administration. the presidents want to focus what they can control and at least they have a little bit more leeway on domestic issues. and that's what we care about right now as a nation, but that stuff is out there and could indeed shape what the second term is about. >> kelly o'donnell with former president jimmy carter. >> thank you, brian. pleasure to see you, mr. president. did a moment like this invoke mernlstime? >> it was. the difference was it was 6 degrees and the wind was blowing when i was inaugust your it aed. yeah, this is a ceremony of diversity as you noticed with the different ethnic groups. i think all the performances were great, including the president's speech. i think it was a spirit of harmony and maybe anticipation for a more productive next four years. >> what do you think is most achievable, mr. president? >> i think the next thing achieved is finally a bipartisan approach toward alleviating the pr
inaugural, filled with a great society with all the things he wanted to accomplish in associate justice and vietnam was a small part of that and it becomes the swallowing of his administration. the presidents want to focus what they can control and at least they have a little bit more leeway on domestic issues. and that's what we care about right now as a nation, but that stuff is out there and could indeed shape what the second term is about. >> kelly o'donnell with former president...
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senator kerry, another vietnam veteran who has been very skeptical. the professor makes a key point about the president's world view, be more cautious than his predecessors. i want to make another comment on the gay rights comment. if you look at women's rights, civil rights, someone in a leadership position who for a long time has been saying no has to say yes to bring the moovemet along. it was the old bulls in the civil rights movement. president kennedy was a no. he was more skeptical with his religious upbringing. the civil rights movement it based in the african-american church. some of them still say no but a lot fewer today than a few years ago. >> i don't think he ever really said no. that was a political calculation and he was trying to bring people along. i think he was waiting to get to that moment. >> let's check in with dana bash. i think the president went by her again. dana? >> that's right, anderson. we're standing again in the capitol rotunda. right over behind me is where statutory hall is. you see the pictures right there of john k
senator kerry, another vietnam veteran who has been very skeptical. the professor makes a key point about the president's world view, be more cautious than his predecessors. i want to make another comment on the gay rights comment. if you look at women's rights, civil rights, someone in a leadership position who for a long time has been saying no has to say yes to bring the moovemet along. it was the old bulls in the civil rights movement. president kennedy was a no. he was more skeptical with...